deviate

1. A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior (synset 110438792)
   is a type of: miscreant, reprobate - a person without moral scruples
   subtypes:

   • fetishist - one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature)
   • masochist - someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment
   • nympho, nymphomaniac - a woman with abnormal sexual desires
   • child molester, paederast, pederast - a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
   • paedophile, pedophile - an adult who is sexually attracted to children
   • sadist - someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others
   • sadomasochist - someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism
   • lech, lecher, letch, satyr - man with strong sexual desires
   • bugger, sod, sodomist, sodomite - someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
   same as: degenerate, deviant, pervert

1. Markedly different from an accepted norm (synset 301600704)
   "aberrant behavior"; "deviant ideas"
   similar to: abnormal, unnatural - not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm
   same as: aberrant, deviant

1. Turn aside;
   Turn away from (synset 202068815)
   is a type of: turn - change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
   subtypes:

   • yaw - deviate erratically from a set course
   • detour - travel via a detour
   • depart, digress, sidetrack, straggle - wander from a direct or straight course
   same as: divert
2. Be at variance with;
   Be out of line with (synset 202667330)
   is a type of: differ - be different
   subtypes:

   • aberrate - diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration
   • aberrate - diverge from the expected
   • belie, contradict, negate - be in contradiction with
   same as: depart, diverge, vary
3. Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course (synset 202069013)
   "The river was deviated to prevent flooding"
   is a type of: divert - send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one
   subtypes:

   • perturb - cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
   • perturb - disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
   • shunt - provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt

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